Hunter Kroll’s Reviews > The Shining > Status Update

I am, admittedly, no longer enjoying this book and hope it ends soon. It has become quite plot heavy for me

Damn this shit got creepy as hell outta nowhere

So it would seem the Goodreads edition has fewer pages. Regardless, it seems that we are losing the plot a bit here. Perhaps that’s bound to happen over 650 pages

“His penis hung limply, like kelp” dude why the fuck would you write that

End of part three. It’s starting to feel like the inclusion of Danny as a POV character was a pretty major misstep for what Kings intention was - I pigeonholed way too early on the anxiety and trauma readings and tagged Danny as the character I should care about (making Jack and Wendy instrumental) when I really think now King is just treating shining as a cool novelty

Nice history, I hope none of that becomes relevant to later plot events

I feel like King got a note from his editor that was like “why have we been dicking around for 200 pages” so he added the scene with the doctor to just explain exactly word for word what he’d been setting up with Danny

I’m curious what the plan is here because shining is an interesting metaphor but making the horror elements real seems like it would basically be saying that a state of anxiety is our natural state that we should always be in which feels wrong

Intriguing